Brownscastle

14 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Brownscastle, from 46 m² to 616,251 m² (61.63 ha, 152.28 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.

No zone of a development plan covers Brownscastle in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 26 Mar 2025Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the erection of a slatted tank house with cubicles

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20250341

• 5 Dec 2024Granted (conditional)

  Permission for the retention of a detached building containing a home office

  Retention · Wexford County Council, 20241517

• 23 Mar 2017Granted (conditional)

  PERMISSION FOR ERECTION OF A SLATTED CUBICLE HOUSE AND ALL ASSOCIATED SITEWORKS

  Permission · Wexford County Council, 20170344

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Brownscastle.

Recorded monuments

• WX036-037 House - 16th/17th century
  Description

  References date certainly from the early 17th century when a castle, possibly not this structure, was owned by David Synnott (Jeffrey 1979, 99 100). According to the Civil Survey (1654-6) David Synnott owned 180 acres at Brownscastle and the castle is described as ‘a small pile of stone out of repair’ (Simington 1953, 82). It is situated on rock outcrop overlooking the E-W Corrock river c. 60m to the N, and a defile through the S escarpment of the steep-sided valley is immediately to the W. The defile now has a roadway leading to Taghmon, c. 2 km to the S, but an old roadway winds up the escarpment from the NE and passes immediately W of the monument before turning SE. This is a small two storey house (int. dims. 8.1m N-S; 2.75m E-W) constructed of shale with no dressed stone. There is a doorway (Wth 1.25m) towards the N end of the W wall, and there was probably a similar doorway at the same point on the E wall. There are two small slit windows in the long walls and one in the end walls at the ground floor. The joists for the ceiling are set directly into the long walls, but there are arches (D c. 1m) attached to the inner faces of the N and S walls, spanning the building. The first floor has two narrow lights on the E wall and one each on the other walls, that on the W wall with a horizontal slit beneath it. There is no evidence of a fireplace or of a stairs. There W doorway opens into a D-shaped enclosure (int. dims 5.9m N-S; 5.7m E-W) defined by masonry walls (T 0.3-0.45m; H 1.5m) with four small lights surviving and an opening (Wth 2.45m), which may be damage, at NW. See the attached section from the Down Survey (1656-8) parish map (N at top) reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland (Ms 725) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 7 November, 2012

Architectural heritage

• Farm house, 1842–1851 · Regional interest
  Description

  Detached three-bay two-storey farmhouse house, extant 1851, on a T-shaped plan with single-bay (two-bay deep) two-storey lower central return (east). Occupied, 1911. Pitched slate roof on a T-shaped plan centred on pitched slate roof (east) with roll moulded clay ridge tiles, rendered chimney stacks having cut-granite capping supporting yellow terracotta octagonal pots, and cast-iron rainwater goods on rendered eaves. Roughcast walls bellcast over rendered plinth with rendered "bas-relief" strips to corners. Segmental-headed central door opening with cut-granite step threshold, doorcase with engaged columns supporting shallow cornice on entablature, and rendered "bas-relief" surround framing timber panelled door having fanlight. Square-headed window openings with cut-granite sills, and concealed dressings framing six-over-six timber sash windows. Set in landscaped grounds.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.

Terrain model

No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Brownscastle.

Flooding

The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Brownscastle with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wexford.

Name

Brownscastle · Caisleán an Bhrúnaigh

Area

998,688 m² (99.87 ha, 246.78 acres)

Civil parish

Taghmon, and its townlands

Barony

Shelmaliere West

Electoral division

Taghmon, the unit of the census

Census 2022

Taghmon electoral division: 1,201 people in 444 households; 59% of households own their home; 33% of homes were built since 2001; 5% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 0% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ballyhennigan, Bricketstown, Cloghulatagh, Forest, Harristown Big, Harristown Little, Poulmarl

Placenames

Brownscastle on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.